Sunset over Millennium Park
By adamg - Sun, 07/22/2007 - 11:22pm.
I took this shot from the top of Millennium Park this evening about a minute before a parks-department employee with a rather strict definition of "closes at dusk" started kicking out sunset watchers. Fortunately, there was also a rather nice view from the bottom of the hill, just beyond the park gate:
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Forgive my ignorance, but
Forgive my ignorance, but where is Millennium Park?
VFW Parkway in West Roxbury
Coming southbound, take the first right after the Home Depot (or beat the light and turn into Home Depot, then don't turn into the parking lot and take a right onto the first road you get to).
It's a great place for watching sunsets (when surly park employees desperate to get home aren't around, that is) because at the top there's this giant open area with a great 360-degree view of the surrounding countryside (hmm, I bet it would be a great place to watch the sun come up over the Hancock and Pru, but I wouldn't know, since that would require actually getting up before sunrise to get there; why can't sunrises be scheduled at more convenient times?).
Besides burning images into your retina, it's also a good place for kite flying and for communing with nature on the paths that wind along the Charles River (into which you can also launch a canoe). And there's a playground.
Another good park for sunsets
For those of us on the other side of the Charles, Danehy Park in Cambridge is a great place to watch sunsets, or other sky phenomena such as lunar eclipses. Like Millennium Park, Danehy is a former landfill, so it has lots of treeless artificial hills.
Danehy Park is behind the Fresh Pond Shopping Center and cinema, a reasonably short walk from Alewife station.